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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9470634" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Because new DMs tend to follow the rules in the book to the letter. They'll read this, think this is how it -has- to be, and go from there.And when they meet a player whose character concept goes against the RAW (like knowing who they made a deal with) there's a decent chance they'll shoot it down because "The rules say!"You don't write a PHB just for people that have been playing for 20 years. You also write it for the folks picking up the book for the first time.And, of course, because it's bad design to make the class's entire narrative about the patron and then not have it present from the start.</blockquote>